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...cared for in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) receive antibiotics in the first two days of life, regardless of their health status. And a majority of those receive many more days of treatment. “Extremely preterm infants often have multiple medical problems, with symptoms of prematurity overlapping with other conditions like infection,” said co-author Barbara B....

...Care, one of the specialist mental health trusts already applying a zero strategy. His plans are at an early stage, but he is setting out to create a Zero Suicide foundation. He wants it to identify good practices across the 55 mental health trusts in England and create a new strategy to be applied everywhere. The zero approach is a proactive strategy that aims to...

...adults working within health and social care settings are able to recognise and respond appropriately to mental illness in adolescence. This stage is critical for laying down foundations for healthy emotional and social habits that are crucial for positive mental wellbeing at this age and beyond. Good mental health can help protect an adolescent from emotional and social...

...care workers.’ This may not seem a very encouraging start to this OpenLearn course but it is worth knowing that, despite evidence of high stress, studies have also found consistently high job satisfaction among social workers (Stalker et al., 2007; Collins, 2008). If social work is such a stressful occupation, what helps social workers to survive, and even thrive? This...

...care provider or complete a course of quality antibiotics. Instead, they might turn to unregulated markets for substandard drugs. But why do people resort to unregulated markets or take drugs that aren’t that great if they are available?Marcella Alsan, an assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine who studies the relationship between...

...caring way towards them. Research repeatedly shows that social support is the single most important factor that protects people from the after effects of trauma. And this social support can be provided by anyone – a partner, family, friends, colleagues or members of the community. Essentially, any caring person can provide a basic level of emotional support. The best...